Purdue University has announced it reached new milestones in both research awards and gift funding for fiscal year 2022-23, shattering previous records for both research funding and donor giving to the university. Purdue received $613 million in research awards during the fiscal year that ran from July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023. Concurrently, Purdue received a record $610 million in private contributions. These two new records mark the first time in university history that either category surpassed $600 million in a year.
A Purdue experiment launching Tuesday (Aug. 1) on Northrop Grumman’s 19th commercial resupply services mission (NG-19) to the International Space Station for NASA aims to collect data scientists need to answer decades-old questions about how boiling and condensation work in reduced gravity. The NG-19 spacecraft is expected to launch at 8:31 p.m. from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and arrive at the space station Friday (Aug. 4). A livestream of the launch is available via NASA Live.
Purdue researchers across all campuses and academic disciplines have recently received 21 patents on their intellectual property from the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. Most of these innovations are available to license and bring to market.
Eight Purdue University faculty have been named 2023-24 Fulbright U.S. Scholars, tying the university’s record for the largest number of awardees in a single year, bolstering its national reputation as a Fulbright top-producing institution and illustrating its unparalleled commitment to excellence at scale. This marks the third time eight Purdue faculty have received Fulbright Awards in a single year, a milestone achieved in 2019-20 and matched again in 2021-22.
Kerry Bruso loves her job as a dancer at Walt Disney World so much that she wants her career to stretch long past her performance prime – and earning her MBA at Purdue Global was a way to make it happen. Read more about how Purdue Global helped Bruso advance her career.